Meanwhile every single brown woman (there are very few white ones) is competent and no-nonsense yet compassionate and down to earth in that way the lefties like to portray them.
This thread has made me realize that I simply tune this trope out to the point where I have a blind spot for it. Like seeing the 999th iteration of a Nathan Drake or other blank slate white guy. The hyper-competent YASS QUEEN is even in another game that I played recently:
In Skald: Against the Black Priory's defense, even though it was made by a progressive Norwegian, The Yass Queen (that's not her name, I forgot her name) is a capricious crime-lord who is guided by love and jealousy, and you get to steal her armor from under her nose.
Skald was alright, I finished it but it felt like there was so much more planned that didn't end up getting made. Hoping for a good sequel. Highlight was Kat's cute interjections during grim story moments.
I've tried to get into some indies but they've mostly been kinda crap
Crappy recent indie immersive sims, don't tell me Gloomwood is crap? Thinking about it, I wouldn't be surprised. Making an imsim seems like a AAA studio job.
Rest in Peace, Alec Holowka, the one dev who wasn’t a complete woke retard that actually cared about the music, story and message past “hurr durr liberals good”. I’m confident that without him the game would’ve just been an unplayable piece of trash full of faggy political messaging and virtue signaling.
Night in the Woods is a sore spot because it had two devs, and the one that Zoe Quinn decided to kill was the one that isn't the retarded communist. Actually set back the indie gaming scene by so incredibly much. Oh well, at least we don't get NitW 4 where Mae and Bea are both troons.
Sorry for the essay, but it's pretty common to hear "Disco Elysium mocks both sides actually!" when there's undoubtedly an author bias. You don't even have to dig to find it.
I want to compliment you on your fantastic discopost. There is definitely no need to apologize for the essay, as you have outlined the writer's biases masterfully. I especially appreciate your commentary on the lawful-good negro. However, I do have some nitpicks:
1.
The commie actually has a name and plays a major role in the story. The other guy doesn't receive any humanizing qualities whatsoever (like a name.)
Neglecting to ask people's names is just a quirk that Harry has. For efficiency's sake, he just gives people memorable titles in his head.
Racist Lorry Driver stands out from the group because he's not a woman or a homo-sexual lol. Notable other women include
Paledriver,
Frittte Clerk, and
Working-Class Woman. One of whom you can actually have a very moving and tragic scene with. You yourself appear to be doing the same thing to
The Commie! Or perhaps that's an intentional bit of comedy.
The commie is so powerful that if you stand up for yourself (i.e. be an actual cop)
you get killed without exception. The other guy requires a trivial skill check to defuse.
No cop in real life is going to walk into a room of armed,
organized criminals (that's actually what the game refers to
The Hardie Boys as) who outnumber him, who appear to have lynched a man, and then try to arrest their leader.
Under no circumstance are they able to write characters who actually sit on the opposite side of any given political issue. Fascist extremists? Those can be characterized.
An actual working-class man who doesn't agree that unions will magically solve all of his woes, and does not agree with the mass import of some other ethnicity (who will compete with him for work)? That guy isn't allowed a voice.
I somewhat agree. I do think
Measurehead qualifies as a fascist extremist, and he's very well developed. His character development, however, actually undermines his own political stance. He's never even been to his supposed homeland, and his accent is clearly 'Occidental' aka the pseudo-French of Revachol. It's the same thing with the communist quest guys, and with
Racist Lorry Driver.
